From: Mark Roberts ([email protected])
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 14:20:32 CEST
Dear Bill!
> seeing as mu linux is shell script based, and most of you guys/gals
> would be shell script experts, perhaps you could put together a few lines
> to parse form input web pages in shell script. (I don't want to load the
> Perl module)
>
> ie:
> web page form normally returns something like:
> name=bill+clinton&eyecolor=blue&hobbies=foreign+travel+politics
>
> and I'd like the script accept it and to clear it up.
> ie: echo $FIRSTNAME
> Bill
> echo $HOBBY1
> foreign travel
> etc..
>
> any ideas?
I'd use awk. I haven't experimented with mu-awk, but I suppose it's more
or less compatible to POSIX-awk. Splitting the input records at & and the
fields at = and +, and assuming that's all there is to it (I haven't
bothered to look up the complete syntax), here's a first effort:
If the file muff.cgi contains the one line
name=bill+clinton&eyecolor=blue&hobbies=foreign+travel+politics
then the command line
awk 'BEGIN {
RS="&"; FS="+|="
}
{
for (i=1; i<NF; i++)
{
print $1 i "=" $(i+1)
}
}' muff.cgi
produces:
name1=bill
name2=clinton
eyecolor1=blue
hobbies1=foreign
hobbies2=travel
hobbies3=politics
If you pass that to a shell, it will set the values precisely like that.
Is that okay for a start?
Mark
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